Contributing to Enyo

Contributors welcome!

Enyo is an open-source project, and is developed in public on Github under the Apache 2.0 license. We have a core team of developers who work full-time on Enyo, and we also welcome outside contributors to join our effort to make native-quality app development a reality on the web stack.

Here's what you need to know to get started.

If you have an idea for a fix or feature you’d like to contribute, we strongly encourage you to float it for discussion on the Enyo development mailing list first, particularly if it will involve a lot of work to implement.

We’ll consider anything, but keep in mind that it's a big responsibility to ensure the Enyo core and the official libraries stay rock-solid, lightweight, and fully-cross platform, so not all contributions will make sense to pull into those libraries. In general, it’s safe to say that smaller changes are more likely to be accepted than larger ones, and that contributions to the “outer rings” of Enyo are more likely to be accepted than things that affect the Enyo core.

We maintain a list of tasks in our bug tracker tagged with the starter label, which we think are good issues for new developers to tackle to get up to speed with contributing to Enyo. If you're interested in becoming a regular contributor and are looking for a place to start, try working on one of these issues first.

If you want to tackle a known bug, check the Enyo JIRA issue tracker to make sure no one is already in progress on the issue, and leave a comment indicating you are working on a fix.

We have also set up the Enyo Community Gallery as a place you can freely show off and share any widgets, libraries, and add-ons you create, and we encourage you to go crazy there.

Contribution guidelines

We have formalized our contribution guidelines a bit to ensure we can safely accept even large contributions to the official project. Please read this section carefully if you are interested in contributing:

All developers (even the core team) do development on git branches or forks. Changes to master are submitted as pull requests via Github to the master branch, and our designated "Pull Masters" oversee the code review/signoff process and merge changes into master.

To contribute a change, fork the repo, push changes to your fork, and submit a pull request to enyojs to have your change reviewed for submission to master. For details on the Github pull request process, see here.

IMPORTANT: All pull requests must now include the following line in the pull request comments (using your full name and email address), which indicates your contribution complies to the Enyo Developer's Certificate of Origin v1.1:

Enyo-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe@myco.com>

Below is a layman's description of the five points in the Enyo DCO (be sure to read and agree to the full text here):

I created this contribution/change and have the right to submit it to the Project; or

I created this contribution/change based on a previous work with a compatible open source license; or

This contribution/change has been provided to me by someone who did (a) or (b) and I am submitting the contribution unchanged.

I understand this contribution is public and may be redistributed as open source software.

I understand that I retain copyright ownership in this contribution and I am granting the Project a copyright license to use, modify and distribute my contribution. The Project may relicense my contribution under other OSI-approved licenses.

The Enyo DCO and signoff process was heavily influenced by the Linux Foundation's kernel contribution process, and we think it strikes a good balace between keeping the lawyers happy while staying lightweight. Just remember to include the one-line signoff in all pull requests.

Finally, a couple of practical matters to help our Pull Masters stay sane: